Umahi reveals why Ndigbo will give Tinubu 99% of their votes in 2027

Dave Umahi, the federal Minister of Works, has expressed confidence that President Bola Tinubu would be re-elected in 2027 to complete eight years as Nigerian president.

He also said the Southeast region will produce 99% of votes for the president’s re-election.

Mr Umahi stated this at a stakeholders meeting on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway Phase 1 at the Eko Hotel in Lagos on Sunday.

He said, “A man that has the courage to do what was dreamt 45 years back is the only man that will have the courage to finish it.

“I say we must vote for him in 2027. The president must be re-elected by the power of God. Those in support say ‘hi’.”

Speaking on the reason Ndigbo will give their 99 percent of votes to President Tinubu, Umahi said Mr Tinubu has done well for the South-East since assuming office in 2023, hence the need to reciprocate in the ballot.

He said: “We have no reason to stop the work, but we have every reason to do the right thing, and it is not peculiar to that job, that is what we are doing in all the projects.

“We also have some jobs—Enugu to Abakaliki, we have Afikpo-Abia-Okigwe, and of course one of the legacy projects of Mr President, and so we are not sabotaging the President.

“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is going to have 99 percent of the votes of the South-East because he has been very nice to the people of the South-East. They will leave South-West to give us 99.99% [in] 2027,” he added.